The end of verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru

verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru 的终结

Last night, I got a notice that my domain renewal had been rejected by my payment provider (Privacy.com) because my domain provider (101Domain) tried to charge $200 for renewal of verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru. (note: the real issue behind this transaction was that the underlying card had expired, but it also would have rejected on amount) 昨晚，我收到通知，我的域名续费被支付服务商（Privacy.com）拒绝了，因为我的域名注册商（101Domain）试图收取 200 美元来续费 verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru。（注：这笔交易背后的真正问题是底层银行卡已过期，但即便卡没过期，也会因为金额问题被拒。）

If you run whois verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru right now, you get a few lines that, taken together, are the whole story: 如果你现在运行 whois verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru，你会看到几行信息，合起来就是整个故事：

created: 2014-11-10T00:34:07Z paid-till: 2026-11-10T00:34:07Z free-date: 2026-12-11 state: REGISTERED, DELEGATED, UNVERIFIED 创建时间：2014-11-10T00:34:07Z 付费截止：2026-11-10T00:34:07Z 释放日期：2026-12-11 状态：已注册，已委派，未验证

The UNVERIFIED in the last line is the problem. What actually changed? Федеральный закон от 29.12.2025 № 569-ФЗ was signed at the end of last year, but the part that matters for me took effect on September 1st, eleven days ago as I write this. At least, that’s what I’ve been able to surmise by asking AIs about it. I don’t speak Russian, and this doesn’t seem to be some major newsworthy move, but just a routine procedure. 最后一行中的“未验证”（UNVERIFIED）就是问题所在。到底发生了什么变化？俄罗斯联邦 2025 年 12 月 29 日第 569-FZ 号联邦法案于去年年底签署，但对我而言至关重要的部分在 9 月 1 日（即我写下这段文字的 11 天前）生效了。至少，这是我通过询问人工智能推断出来的。我不懂俄语，这似乎也不是什么重大的新闻事件，只是一项例行程序。

From what I can tell, the only way to keep my domain would be to establish some form of Russian connection. I could start a business, invest in one, attempt to emigrate, etc. I love committing to a bit, but that’s just a bit too far for my tastes. So the practical effect is the same as the shorthand, even if the mechanism is more bureaucratic than a ban. 据我所知，保留该域名的唯一方法是建立某种形式的俄罗斯联系。我可以创办一家企业、进行投资或尝试移民等。我喜欢为了一个梗而投入，但这对我来说实在太过火了。因此，尽管其机制比直接封禁更具官僚色彩，但实际效果是一样的。

My registration is paid through November 10th, 2026. I cannot renew it. On December 11th it goes free, and any person who can satisfy these new requirements can have it. 我的注册有效期至 2026 年 11 月 10 日。我无法续费。12 月 11 日它将被释放，任何能满足这些新要求的人都可以拥有它。

The disclaimer I shouldn’t have to write

我本不该写的免责声明

I have no connection to Russia. None. No family, no lineage, no investments, no heritage I’ve quietly been sitting on. I’ve never been there. I never learned the language and was never especially curious about it. I’m not an expert in any of its conflicts, but broadly I do not support any government or leadership that indulges in war, and nothing about my owning this domain was ever a statement about any of that. I hadn’t realized until writing this post that I bought it eight months after Russia annexed Crimea. 我和俄罗斯没有任何联系。一点都没有。没有家庭、血缘、投资，也没有我悄悄持有的遗产。我从未去过那里。我从未学过这门语言，也从未对它特别好奇。我不是其任何冲突的专家，但总的来说，我不支持任何沉溺于战争的政府或领导层，我拥有这个域名也绝非对此发表任何声明。直到写这篇文章时，我才意识到我是在俄罗斯吞并克里米亚八个月后买下它的。

I’ll say the other part too, since it’s honest: I’ve long known this was coming. I had briefly dual-deployed this blog to verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.blog, but that turned into a $60/year obligation I also wasn’t willing to tolerate (some parker has it now). The relationship between the two countries has been pointed in one direction for a long time, and anybody holding a novelty .ru has been holding it on borrowed time whether they thought about it or not. Mostly I didn’t think about it. What surprises me isn’t that it’s over. It’s that I got twelve years out of it. 我还要坦诚地说另一件事：我早就知道会有这一天。我曾短暂地将这个博客双重部署到 verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.blog，但这变成了一项我也不愿承担的每年 60 美元的义务（现在被某个域名停放者占用了）。两国之间的关系长期以来一直朝着一个方向发展，任何持有 .ru 趣味域名的人，无论是否意识到，其实都是在借来的时间里持有它。我大多时候没去想这个问题。让我惊讶的不是它结束了，而是我竟然用了它十二年。

Why I bought it in the first place

我当初为什么要买它

In 2014 I was a security guard at a condominium complex in Austin, making $11 an hour. I’ve written about this era before, so I’ll keep it short: I was newly married, I was not yet a software engineer, and I very badly wanted to become one. What I had was a guardhouse computer and a lot of uninterrupted time. The machine belonged to a property management company and was intended for logging package deliveries. I had improperly installed Visual Studio and Android Studio on it, and between residents I wrote apps in C# and Java. I’d also installed FileZilla so I could upload stuff to my DigitalOcean droplets. By the end I had quietly assembled, on a computer whose actual job was to record when the plumber showed up and who got what package, a complete and entirely unauthorized development environment. 2014 年，我在奥斯汀的一个公寓大楼当保安，时薪 11 美元。我以前写过这段时期，所以长话短说：我刚结婚，还不是软件工程师，但我非常渴望成为一名工程师。我当时拥有的是一台保安室的电脑和大量不受干扰的时间。这台机器属于物业管理公司，本意是用来记录包裹递送的。我在上面违规安装了 Visual Studio 和 Android Studio，在住户进出之间，我用 C# 和 Java 编写应用程序。我还安装了 FileZilla，以便将东西上传到我的 DigitalOcean 服务器。最终，在一台本职工作是记录水管工何时到达以及谁收到了什么包裹的电脑上，我悄悄组建了一个完整且完全未经授权的开发环境。

The programs were not good. I wrote one that generated a random math problem and offered you a multiple-choice list of answers. I wrote one that generated random colors. That’s it, but I had made the computer do something, and at 2 AM in a guardhouse that felt enormous. 这些程序并不好。我写过一个生成随机数学题并提供多项选择答案的程序。我还写过一个生成随机颜色的程序。仅此而已，但我让电脑做了一些事情，在凌晨 2 点的保安室里，这感觉意义重大。

Giovanni

乔瓦尼

My friend Giovanni was an actual working software engineer, which made him the closest thing I had to a professional peer, and the unwitting recipient of everything I made. I would compile these little apps and email him the binaries in zip folders. He used to joke, more or less, that for all I know you’ve figured out how to make a virus and are sending me one. 我的朋友乔瓦尼是一位真正的在职软件工程师，这使他成为我最接近专业同行的人，也是我所有作品的不知情接收者。我会编译这些小应用程序，并将二进制文件压缩成 zip 文件夹通过电子邮件发给他。他过去常开玩笑说，我怎么知道你是不是学会了制造病毒并正在发给我。

So I did the only reasonable thing and registered [email protected], so that the next binary would arrive with reassurance attached. And then, because a bit is only worth doing if you’re willing to overcommit to it, I bought the domain. The entire plan was to host a zip file at verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru and tell Giovanni to download it. I don’t remember whether I ever actually did it. I remember buying the domain to make it possible. 所以我做了唯一合理的事情：注册了 [email protected]，这样下一个二进制文件发过去时就会附带“保证”。然后，因为一个梗只有当你愿意过度投入时才值得去做，我买下了这个域名。整个计划是在 verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru 上托管一个 zip 文件，并告诉乔瓦尼去下载它。我不记得我是否真的做过。我只记得我买下这个域名是为了让它成为可能。

What a joke turns into if you leave it alone long enough

如果你让一个梗存在足够久，它会变成什么样

I started working as a software engineer the following May. The handle came with me. It’s my GitHub username. It’s my handle everywhere I do anything programming-adjacent. It is, at times, more recognizable as me than my legal name is in most of the rooms I’m in. Whenever people’d ask me about the username, I’d get to say “I own the .ru, too.” and it always makes them laugh. I have never had to explain the joke. The joke explains itself, and then the domain is the punchline that proves I meant it. It’s the single best return on investment I have ever gotten for what I think was about eight dollars. 第二年五月，我开始担任软件工程师。这个代号一直跟着我。它是我的 GitHub 用户名。它是我在任何与编程相关的地方使用的代号。有时，在大多数场合下，它比我的法定姓名更能代表我。每当人们问起这个用户名时，我都会说：“我还拥有那个 .ru 域名。”这总是让他们发笑。我从来不需要解释这个梗。梗本身就能说明一切，而域名则是证明我认真的那个“笑点”。这是我花大约八美元所获得过的最佳投资回报。

So: two domains. I’ve bought verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.dev, and this blog now publishes to both it and the .ru out of the same pipeline, for as long as the .ru keeps resolving. When the registration lapses in December, the domain stops being mine, and so does the evidence that it ever was. Somebody will pick it up and probably put scam ads for boner pills on it. Sorry in advance. 所以：两个域名。我买下了 verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.dev，现在这个博客通过同一个管道同时发布到它和 .ru 域名上，只要 .ru 还能解析。当 12 月注册过期时，这个域名就不再属于我了，它曾经属于我的证据也将消失。有人会买下它，并可能在上面放上壮阳药的诈骗广告。提前表示抱歉。

So, for the record, here is a snapshot of this blog from October 16th, 2024, living at the address it was born at. Proof it was real, and proof it was mine, filed somewhere no registrar can revoke. There’s something appropriately on-brand about a story bracketed by two machine-generated records. A whois entry at one end and a Wayback capture at the other. 所以，为了记录在案，这是 2024 年 10 月 16 日该博客的快照，它位于其诞生的地址。证明它是真实的，证明它是我的，归档在任何注册商都无法撤销的地方。一个由两条机器生成的记录所框定的故事，这本身就非常符合我的风格。一端是 whois 条目，另一端是 Wayback Machine 的存档。